Jaralla Salih Muhammad Khala al-Marri is a citizen of Qatar and a former detainee at the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, where he was imprisoned for six and a half years.

According to his Department of Defense Detainee Assessment, it is believed that Al Marri traveled to Mecca in 2001 where he met Abu Walid al-Makki who began to talk to him about Islam and jihad.

Because he believed that his family would not support his participation in jihad, he told them that he would be traveling to Pakistan to memorize the Quran.

[4] Al Marri arrived in Pakistan on September 6, 2001, and contacted al-Harabi who connected him to a man named al-Zubail who transported him to Kandahar, Afghanistan.

He was suspected of trying to transfer $10,000 of "al-Qaeda operational funds" to his brother Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri, under the direction of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of the attacks.

He told his attorney, Jonathan Hafetz of Gibbons Del Deo Dolan Griffinger & Vecchione, that the government had a nurse make sexual advances towards him while he was lying in his hospital bed in a vain attempt to convince him to give up his hunger strike.

Al-Marri has been in solitary confinement for over 16 months and today often goes as long as 3 weeks without being allowed outside his cell for recreation.

On September 10, 2001, al-Marri came to Peoria with his family to become a graduate student at his undergraduate alma mater, Bradley University.

[5] In a telephone interview, al-Marri told reporters he was detained at Heathrow Airport on February 23, 2009, on the claim that his visa application had not stated that he was a former Guantanamo captive.